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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - The Power | January 12, 2025
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- Tony evans: there's power available,
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- Holy ghost power.
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- No matter what your background is,
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- No matter how weak you are, the holy spirit is ready
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- To empower you and lift you out of your defeat,
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- Because that's how powerful he is.
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- But you gotta be connected through the word
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- In relationship to jesus christ so that his power
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- Can gush forth, 'cause when you get
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- That much power, you can't keep it to yourself.
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- Tony: i'm sure you would agree with me that electricity is
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- One of the most powerful, beneficial forces
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- That are available to us.
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- Our homes are heated because of it.
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- We're able to cook and refrigerate,
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- Turn lights on and a myriad of other benefits
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- Because of the power of electricity.
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- Without that power source available to our lives
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- And to our homes and businesses and churches,
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- Life would be a lot tougher, a lot more challenging,
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- And a lot more difficult.
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- It has revolutionized how we live
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- Because of the power that is associated
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- With this invisible force.
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- Well, i wanna talk to you about another power.
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- And today, i wanna talk to "the holy spirit has the power."
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- In acts chapter 1, the first 8 verses,
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- Jesus christ has risen from the dead,
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- And as he comes to the conclusion
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- Of the 40-day window between his resurrection
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- And his ascension, he comes and he meets with his followers,
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- His disciples.
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- And when he comes to them and gathers with them,
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- He tells them things at the end of verse 3
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- Concerning the kingdom of god.
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- In fact, they wanna know more.
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- "when," verse 6, "are you restoring
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- The kingdom to israel?"
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- There is a discussion about the kingdom.
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- The book of acts is about the kingdom,
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- The kingdom that is to come, jesus's millennial reign
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- Over the whole earth from jerusalem
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- Where he will rule the entire planet,
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- And then the manifestation of the kingdom that is.
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- Jesus will physically return and rule.
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- In the meantime, he's left the church
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- And birthed the church to be his kingdom representatives
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- Until he comes, modeling and manifesting
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- The presence of the kingdom in the midst of the culture.
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- And so he's teaching them concerning the kingdom of god.
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- That's what verse 3 says.
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- It's interesting to note that at the end of the book of acts,
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- I'm talking about the very last verse
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- Of chapter 28.
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- It says paul received people unto him
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- And he taught them about the kingdom of god
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- And the lord jesus christ.
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- So the book of acts ends with the kingdom
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- And it begins with the kingdom, 'cause paul is only carrying on
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- The kingdom conversation that jesus starts
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- In acts chapter 1.
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- And so the teaching is about the kingdom.
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- But jesus throws in a statement in verse 8,
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- "but you will receive power," here's our word,
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- "when the holy spirit has come upon you,
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- And you shall be my witnesses both in jerusalem,
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- Judea, and samaria,
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- And even to the remotest parts of the earth."
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- He talks to them about the power.
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- Now, they wanted to know when he was gonna return
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- To set up the kingdom.
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- Jesus tells them in verse 7, "it's not for you to know."
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- God is not revealing right now the time of his return
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- To set up his earthly messianic millennial rule
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- For a thousand years over planet earth.
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- "but between my leaving," jesus says,
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- "and my returning, i am not gonna give you
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- My physical presence, but i am gonna share with you
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- My spiritual power."
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- So what jesus has left behind in his absence
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- Is the person of the holy spirit and the power
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- That accompanies that person.
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- One of the most misunderstood, mis--
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- And underutilized aspects
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- Of the holy spirit is the understanding of his power.
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- The holy spirit is a powerful person.
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- He is a person, the third member of the trinity,
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- Who takes from god and delivers to us
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- So that the power of heaven is made available to you and me
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- In history while we wait for the powerful one,
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- Jesus christ, to return.
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- So let's talk about the power.
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- Jesus has been teaching about the kingdom of god.
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- Now, those of you who are familiar,
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- Both in our church and outside of our church,
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- With the philosophy and worldview of our ministry,
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- It's about the kingdom,
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- The kingdom agenda, the visible demonstration
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- And manifestation of a comprehensive rule of god
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- Over every area of life.
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- God wants his people to become kingdomized.
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- That is, to become full-time disciples
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- Where all of life is relationally ruled
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- Under the lordship of jesus christ.
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- He says, "while i'm not yet ready
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- To set up my kingdom, i'm gonna let you
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- Have some kingdom electricity.
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- I'm gonna let you have some kingdom power."
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- But wait a minute.
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- Jesus for 40 days between his resurrection
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- And his ascension has been speaking things,
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- Verse 3, about the kingdom.
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- But he says, "i'm gonna have to give you power."
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- What does that tell us right there?
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- Having biblical truth even taught by jesus himself.
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- I mean, you got the living word teaching the written word.
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- I mean, you don't get a better preacher,
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- A better sermon, perfect articulation,
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- Perfect hermeneutics, perfect exegesis.
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- I mean, this is perfect proclamation
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- If jesus is the teacher.
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- But even jesus says without the power,
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- You're going nowhere.
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- So before we even get into understanding the power,
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- Let's get something straight.
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- Bible study is foundational, jesus was teaching,
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- But bible study is not enough.
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- Knowing scripture is absolutely critical,
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- But knowing scripture is not enough.
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- Memorizing scripture is meaningful,
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- But it's not enough, because jesus says
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- You're gonna need some power to go with it.
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- That's why we see people who go to church stay unchanged.
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- They may have the information, they may have the knowledge,
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- But they don't have the power.
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- So the word of god, which is alive,
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- Is not working for them because the power
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- Of the holy spirit is missing, even if the teaching
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- Is orthodox, correct, and kingdom-centered,
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- Which it must be.
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- The holy spirit is the igniter, and his job
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- Is to bring the truth of god, 'cause jesus was speaking,
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- Teaching off the pages of the bible
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- Into your life experience.
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- And if you are not ignited by the power,
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- You will not see the word of god at work in your life,
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- And it will seem like a book that doesn't work
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- Even though you may believe it.
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- Now you need to know it, you need to study it,
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- You need to read it, but you need the power
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- To go with it even if jesus is the one teaching.
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- Far too many christians aren't hooked up properly
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- To the holy spirit, and they wonder why
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- They can't go nowhere.
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- They got the book, the book explains the information,
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- But they don't have the power.
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- The person of the holy spirit at work
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- Bringing the book to life,
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- They don't have the jumper cables working,
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- So they're not hooked up to jesus properly,
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- So they can't go anywhere, and they find themselves
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- Spiritually stuck.
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- He says, "i'm leaving, but i'm going to leave behind
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- A dunamis," where we get our word dynamite.
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- "i'm gonna leave behind power."
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- The word but here means this is a significant difference,
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- "and i'm gonna give you something
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- That's gonna blow your mind,
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- This power source called the holy spirit."
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- Let's go a little deeper about this battery
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- That every christian has been given.
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- He says, verse 5 of acts 1, "for john baptized with water,
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- But you will be baptized with the holy spirit
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- Not many days from now.
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- So to be baptized spiritually is to now be identified
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- As a follower of jesus christ.
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- Water baptism is simply a visible modeling
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- Of spiritual baptism.
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- It says, "i am willing now to be known
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- As a follower of jesus christ.
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- I'm willing to be identified as a christian."
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- See, you can get saved without being baptized.
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- The thief on the cross got saved.
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- Jesus said, "today you will be with me in paradise,"
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- But he never got baptized.
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- Paul says in 1 corinthians 1, verse 17, "i didn't come
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- To baptize, i came to preach the gospel."
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- In other words, baptism doesn't save you.
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- The gospel saves you, but once you get saved,
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- God expects you to now move into discipleship
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- Through your public identification
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- With jesus christ.
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- You go down, if you want more information,
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- Read chapter 6 of romans.
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- It'll give you the inside scoop.
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- "you're buried with him in baptism," it says,
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- "and you're brought up to walk in a newness of life."
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- So baptism means that you are now identified as a christian.
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- Chapter 24, verse 49 says, "and behold,
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- I'm sending forth the promise of my father upon you,
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- But you are to stay in the city until you are clothed
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- With power from on high."
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- So it's the same thing he's talking about
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- In the book of acts, but he uses the word clothed.
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- So the baptism of the spirit from on high, he says,
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- Is clothing.
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- Well, what do you do with clothing?
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- You wear it, okay?
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- God expects you to wear jesus christ.
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- He expects you to be identified as a follower of christ.
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- Or as galatians 3 verse 27 says, that if you are in christ,
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- You are clothed with him.
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- And when you are, watch this, clothed with christ,
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- You are clothed with power from on high.
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- And what's that power?
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- Acts 1:8, the power of the holy spirit.
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- Baptism is what you're supposed to wear.
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- It's visible, it's identifiable.
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- So let me explain something.
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- Don't expect to experience the spirit's power
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- If you don't have on your uniform.
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- If you're not wearing jesus, jesus is not going to give you
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- The power 'cause your clothes are still hanging up
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- In the closet.
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- You're not wearing him.
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- That is, you're not visibly, publicly, lovingly, clearly,
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- But unapologetically identifying with jesus christ.
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- And if you can't be known as a follower of christ,
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- Let's get this straight, not a believer in god, okay?
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- That's not what he's talking about.
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- He's talking about a follower of jesus the christ,
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- Then you're not identified with his kingdom rule,
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- Which means he is not going to share with you
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- His kingdom power.
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- The job of the holy spirit is to take heaven
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- And bring it to earth and empower you with it
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- So that god's resident in you, on you, upon you
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- Becomes visible through you.
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- When you come to christ, things are gonna be different.
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- He's gonna tell you a different definition
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- Of manhood.
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- He's gonna tell you you're supposed to be
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- A kingdom man, not a cultural man.
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- He's gonna give you a different definition
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- Of womanhood.
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- You're not just supposed to be a female,
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- You're supposed to be a kingdom woman.
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- He's gonna tell you different what it means to be a parent,
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- What it means to be a child, what it means to be a worker,
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- What it means handling your finances,
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- What it means operating with your relationships.
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- He's gonna tell you, "we don't roll like that
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- Up in here, up in here."
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- But you're gonna say, "well, how am i gonna do that?
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- I'm not used to that.
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- That's not how i was raised."
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- So when we don't understand the power of the kingdom,
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- What do we do?
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- We bring in the power of the old kingdoms
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- Called worldliness.
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- So we bring in what the old kingdom says
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- About race, culture, class, manhood, womanhood, work, money,
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- Or pick any subject you want, politics.
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- We're gonna bring in that old way of thinking, why?
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- Because we've not yet been kingdomized,
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- And even if we have the information,
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- We don't have the power to pull it off.
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- So what do we do?
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- We live in confusion, and oftentimes
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- We live in defeat.
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- The holy spirit's job is to kingdomize you.
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- Jesus is teaching about the kingdom,
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- And he wants to kingdomize you with the power,
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- The ability to live out kingdom principles.
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- The question is, how do i get this power working, okay?
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- You told me i have it, but how do i get it?
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- Well, let me read a few verses from st. john
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- Where jesus is talking in chapter 16
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- About the holy spirit.
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- John 16, he's been, again, teaching them.
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- Verse 12, "i have many more things
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- To say to you, but you cannot bear them now,"
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- 'cause it's gonna wipe you out.
- 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.055
- "i got so much truth.
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- It's gonna be too much and too hot for you to handle."
- 00:16:47.389 --> 00:16:50.626
- "but when he, the spirit of truth comes,
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- He will guide you into all truth for he will not speak
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- On his own initiative, but whatever he hears
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- He will speak and he will disclose to you
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- What is to come.
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- He will glorify me, for he will take of mine
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- And disclose it to you.
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- All things that my father has are mine.
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- Therefore i said he will take of mine
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- And will disclose it to you."
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- Okay, let's try to walk with this now.
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- What he says is there's this hookup.
- 00:17:31.366 --> 00:17:36.705
- "it starts with my daddy, and everything
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- That my daddy has, i have by his one-of-a-kind, unique,
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- Only-begotten son.
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- We are in sync 100%.
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- And my father discloses to me what's his.
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- I disclose what's mine that belongs to my father
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- To my spirit."
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- Watch this, i don't want to go too fast.
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- "my father discloses it to me.
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- I disclose it to my spirit.
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- My spirit will disclose it to you."
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- You see the hook?
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- You get it from the spirit, the spirit gets it from the son,
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- And the son gets it from the father,
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- 'cause guess what?
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- These computers are networked.
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- Father gives it to the son, son gives it to the spirit,
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- And the spirit gives it to you.
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- So what does that tell you?
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- If you are not in sync with the spirit,
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- You are not going to get it from the son,
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- Because those three operate in sync.
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- The father gives it to the son, the son gives it to the spirit,
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- And it's the spirit's job to give it to you.
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- But give what to you?
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- He says in chapter 16, verse 13, "and when he,
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- The spirit of truth comes."
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- The spirit will only transfer truth.
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- Let me say that again.
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- The spirit will only transfer truth.
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- Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life."
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- He only transfers truth.
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- So if you're not operating on the word of god,
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- You're not operating on truth.
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- So you can pray till you're blue in the face,
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- You can call on the holy ghost all you want.
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- The moment you detour from scripture,
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- You have cancelled out the transfer,
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- You have unplugged the electricity,
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- You've cut the line, because the spirit
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- Only deals with truth.
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- And jesus says in john 17:17, "thy word is truth."
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- So leave scripture, you left truth.
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- Leave truth, you left the holy spirit.
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- Leave the holy spirit, you left power.
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- So a lot of christians aren't experiencing the power
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- Of the holy spirit because they either have left truth
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- Or they are mixing truth.
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- The lord said that you do nullify the word of god
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- With the traditions of men.
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- Did you know you can cancel the bible out
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- In terms of it working in your life
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- Because you brought in secular thinking?
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- And that's the problem today in too many pulpits.
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- They're preaching secular sermons
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- And then have the audacity to quote bible verses.
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- You might as well close your bible
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- When you hear the sermon, because they leave the bible
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- And go to secular opinion.
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- And so the spirit, which is only the spirit of truth,
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- Holds back its power.
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- The second thing he says is that "he is going to speak of me.
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- He's gonna glorify me.
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- The spirit is gonna glorify me."
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- The holy spirit's goal is not to make a big deal
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- Of the holy spirit.
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- The holy spirit's goal is to make a big deal
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- About jesus christ.
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- That's why jesus christ
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- In john 15, the first 16 verses, read it.
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- It says, "i want you to abide with me.
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- You got to hang out with me.
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- You must be identified with me."
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- So you won't only hear me talking about god,
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- I'm gonna be talking about jesus christ.
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- Talking about jesus christ, i am a christian.
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- I am a disciple of christ.
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- I am a follower of christ.
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- I do this in the name of christ.
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- I pray in the name of jesus, why?
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- Because that is what turns on the ignition of the power
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- Of the holy spirit.
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- So it is your connection to christ
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- That engages the holy spirit, not only in talk,
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- But in walk, and he begins to engage with you.
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- Every christian has gotten hooked up
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- To the power plant of the holy spirit,
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- But every christian, even though they hooked up,
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- Haven't flipped the switch, because they do not have
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- Visible and verbal sight and sound of identification,
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- Glorification of jesus christ.
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- You and i are part of another realm.
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- Jesus is teaching them in acts 1 about the kingdom of god.
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- The whole book of acts is about the kingdom of god.
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- The job of the church is to teach people
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- About the kingdom of god.
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- Not about church only, but about the role of church
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- And the role of christians in the church
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- To advance the kingdom of god.
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- So if you're not cultivating a relationship with christ,
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- You're not accessing the kingdom of god.
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- And so that's not something you can just do on sunday.
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- That's got to be a way of life.
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- Drawing near to a person because you are listening
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- To his word, 'cause you can't draw near to him
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- Without the word.
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- So you're using the word to draw near to a person,
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- Which ignites the holy spirit.
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- So you don't have to go holy spirit hunting.
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- You got to go jesus glorifying.
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- Identification with the written and living word
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- Gives you access to the work of the holy spirit.
- 00:23:49.478 --> 00:23:53.515
- So the more you see christ based on his word,
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- The more the power will take place.
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- And what will happen?
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- He says, "and you shall be my witnesses," verse 8.
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- Okay, now here's what you need to know.
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- If you've been empowered by the holy spirit,
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- You're going to be a clear-cut public representative
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- Of jesus christ.
- 00:24:24.713 --> 00:24:26.882
- He says, "when the power of the spirit comes on you,"
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- Verse 8 of acts 1, "you shall be my,"
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- Jesus's, "witnesses."
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- So when you get empowered, your testimonial is
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- Going to come out visibly and verbally.
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- You shall be, not you shall try to be,
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- 'cause it'll be natural.
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- When you done switched kingdoms and the holy spirit
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- Is all on you because you have identified
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- With christ, "you shall be my witnesses."
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- See, we try to force people into representing jesus
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- When they haven't even fully understood
- 00:25:04.252 --> 00:25:05.787
- The kingdom they switched to.
- 00:25:05.787 --> 00:25:07.722
- So they don't have power to represent him.
- 00:25:07.722 --> 00:25:11.092
- And you don't have the power to represent jesus christ,
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- The king of kings and lord of lords
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- Who loved you, who died on the cross for you,
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- Who rose from the dead for you, who's coming back for you,
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- Who's going to give you an eternal home in heaven
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- And let you rule with him on earth.
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- Are you telling me you are ashamed
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- Of your candidate who's already won?
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- Okay, there's power available.
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- Holy ghost power is available to you.
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- No matter what your background is,
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- No matter how weak you are, the holy spirit is ready
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- To empower you and lift you.
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- He'll be helium in your life.
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- Lift you out of your defeat.
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- Lift you out of your addictions.
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- Lift you out of your cursing tongue.
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- Lift you out of your lack
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- Of sexual identity clarification.
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- He will lift you out.
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- Now yes, he may use people, he may use processes,
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- Because he uses different ways of doing it,
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- And sometimes he just uses himself,
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- But he will do it, because that's how powerful
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- He is.
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- Jesus has a hook up to heaven, and it's got plenty of power
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- That he wants to deliver through your limited humanity
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- And mine so that it gushes forth.
- 00:26:32.941 --> 00:26:37.512
- But you got to be connected through the word
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- In relationship to jesus christ so that his power
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- Can gush forth.
- 00:26:44.986 --> 00:26:47.355
- And when it does, other folk gonna get wet,
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- 'cause when you get that much power,
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- You can't keep it to yourself.
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- ♪♪♪
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